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Light Pasta Primavera

Every now and then, I get sick of eating meats of any kind and crave something that is vegetarian and healthy.  Pasta Primavera is excellent to satiate such cravings but the creamy Alfredo sauce does quite a number on my guilt gland. So my solution to this persistent guilt is to try something lighter that tastes as good as...
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Mexican Chicken Tortilla Soup

Even though I did not manage to find it in any restaurant in Mexico City, this is the standard soup of choice at most Tex-Mex restaurants in the US.  I find it an efficient way to use leftover chicken (any roast chicken or rotisserie chicken would do) or the few corn tortillas that didn’t get consumed after a fajita...
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Stuffed Mushroom Caps

In any attempt to conserve money spent on grocery bills, I often buy bulk sized packages of meat. Most often I use part of the meat and then am left with a small quantity of remnant meat that is too little for a whole meal but then I don’t want to waste it either.  Some months ago, I had...
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Easy Butter-Chicken

Both my children are in their teens and for the past 5-6 years our house has been party-central!  One of those times when I had a house full of kids demanding Indian food, I made butter chicken for a group of 10-12 kids.  Fortunately I had enough frozen naans to feed this little army and all I needed to...
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